Anecdotally, the low time to prototype has had me throwing usable tool projects up on my local network. I wrote a meal planner and review tool for our weekly vegetable share, and local board game / book library that guests can connect to and reference.
It scratches the itch to build and ship with the benefit of a growing library of low scope, high performance, highly customized web tools I can write over a few hours in an evening instead of devoting weekends to it. It feels like switching from hand to power tools
Hey there! I applied for the Back End role a couple weeks back, but haven't heard anything beyond application acceptance. I'm also in VT! Would love to connect to someone else in the VT tech scene if nothing else. Let me know!
This resonates with me. I’ve so far chalked it up to envy of their “unearned” confidence that’s rooted in my own self-esteem issues. Recognizing a fellow imposter in the wild.
This has been my experience with citalopram as well. The negative side effect though is that natural highs are lower, so I view it very much as a mood stabilizer.
Interested in this as well. Is it any different if you've got a remote job for a US company (I've got confirmation they'd let me move over to contractor status).
This makes battery the primary differentiator for me when I evaluated EVs. As a resident of Vermont, where there aren’t a ton of super chargers the the winters were harsh, range is important. Higher rated mileage in fair weather carries over to winter, even with degradation from cold. We opted for a Model Y, and after a year of ownership it’s still offering the best range for a vehicle we’d consider affordable. Would love to see other manufacturers catch up to Tesla in this regard.
Do you have any resources for startups in the not-Boston part of this region? I’m in northern Vermont and the job market here for tech has historically been pretty bare. Would love to work for a more local company than I currently do.
We’ve been using it for 4+ Years for a backend web service and a few other libraries at my current company. I had a chance to document our experience back in 2017[1].
I can’t speak to the approaches to concurrency, but from a day-to-day writing code perspective, it still feels miles ahead of Java in terms of cutting down boiler plate and null safety. Additionally, the support for it in IntelliJ gets better release after release. It’s worth _trying_ to move over from Java, because it’s such a cheap experiment. Add the standard lib, and you get complete interoperability out of the box.
The one caveat to our experience: we did find ourselves switching to Java when we were trying to squeeze as much performance out of something as we could. This was I think Kotlin 1.1 or 1.2, and perhaps the byte code generated now is better, but we did experience some performance hits with the syntactic sugar provided around list comprehension. Overall, however, I much rather prefer Kotlin today if my application is greenfield, and I’ve got a say in how it’s built.
We've been using CloudFlare's SSL for SaaS [1] offering for the last year, and have nothing but good things to say. You also get the rate limiting and other protections you'd expect from CloudFlare. It's been great not having to worry about CSRs and cert renewals as we've scaled out. Although, we _did_ go down the other day as part of their outage.
> People say getting communication on their phones is like an anchor to their desk
I’ve been struggling with this lately, to the point where I’ve experimented with going back to a dumb phone, and trying to use my smart phone without Slack. As a remote employee, I think having Slack on mobile has lead to a greater degree of freedom, as you mentioned, but I also wonder if the constant tether is leading me to burnout more quickly.
It scratches the itch to build and ship with the benefit of a growing library of low scope, high performance, highly customized web tools I can write over a few hours in an evening instead of devoting weekends to it. It feels like switching from hand to power tools